Lithium treatment of conduct disorders in adolescents
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 April 1997
Arthur Rifkin, B Karajgi, Robert Dicker, E Perl, V. Boppana, Noorul Hasan
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Lithium does not appear beneficial for treating conduct disorder in adolescents and on several measures of clinical change the groups showed no significant differences.
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Lithium does not appear beneficial for this indication.
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